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Friday, December 23, 2011

Bell Canada ends internet throttling in favor of usage-based billing

Here in the United States the net neutrality debate rages on, but Canadian internet users officially lost the battle
three years ago. Now, however, one internet service provider, Bell
Canada, has agreed to stop peer-to-peer throttling. In a letter to the
Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC), the
ISP said that peer-to-peer file-sharing now takes up less bandwidth than
streaming video and other services, making throttling it a lower
priority.